The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has announced a federal grand jury indictment charging Jon Christopher Burt, Gerald Steven Lavender, and Jack Nelson Purvis Jr. in an alleged bid-rigging conspiracy involving sports equipment contracts for Mississippi public schools. The case is another reminder that criminal antitrust enforcement remains a live risk in public-procurement markets, including transactions that may appear routine or…
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In a short but useful procedural order, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board granted the patent owner’s unopposed motion to withdraw existing lead counsel and substitute new lead counsel in PGR2025-00086. The order applies 37 C.F.R. § 42.10, the PTAB rule governing counsel recognition and changes in representation, and reflects the Board’s routine but important emphasis on continuity of…
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Microsoft Corporation has filed a new inter partes review petition against QOMPLX LLC at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, opening a fresh front in what could become an important dispute over patent validity and competitive positioning. The case, Microsoft Corporation v. Qomplx LLC, was filed on April 7, 2026, and is docketed as IPR2026-00325.

At this stage, the…
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Chief Justice John Roberts has temporarily halted a lower-court order directing the federal government to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador, escalating what is quickly becoming one of the most closely watched emergency immigration disputes on the Court’s shadow docket.

The case arises from the government’s acknowledgment that Abrego Garcia was deported because of an “administrative error,” despite a…
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Despite what seems to be an accepted truism, AI hallucinations aren’t necessarily completely random. That’s the key insight from a new physics-based analysis by a group of scientists and engineers and it may change how we should be using GenAI tools.The key finding: GenAI systems have a deterministic mechanism that causes output to flip from reliable to fabricated at a…
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Apple Inc. has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, opening IPR2026-00332 on April 3, 2026. At this stage, the public docket identifies Apple as the petitioner, but practitioners should note that early PTAB dockets often reveal only limited information until the petition, exhibits, and mandatory notices are fully available.

Based on the…
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A federal appeals court has handed a significant win to UpCodes, a legal tech startup that publishes building codes and technical standards online, ruling that its posting of copyrighted standards likely constitutes fair use — at least for now.
In a decision issued April 7, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s denial of a…
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Managing by walking around used to be standard practice. But with remote work, Zoom, and billable hour pressure, the concept lost some of its luster .But with AI we may need it more than ever. When we rely only on LLMs to make decisions and summarize work, we lose something critical: the senior lawyer who stops by, asks questions, catches…
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Litigation tied to the Trump administration remains one of the most consequential forces in federal courts, even when no single case captures the entire story. Across disputes involving executive authority, agency data access, immigration enforcement, and the boundaries between government power and the legal profession, courts are continuing to issue rulings that will shape public-law litigation for years.

One recent…
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In the Orange Rag newsletter out at the end of March, we featured our monthly product news table, incorporating the launches and updates of the past few weeks.
A key theme that we see time and time again in new product launches at the moment is the continued “platformisation” of legal tech. Providers such as DISCO, Consilio and Epiq are…
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From : Blog Entry >> Ceyda’s Blog EntryYou might be wondering, “why roundabouts?” Because I used to hate them. Truly. The hesitation, the second-guessing, the person who just stops in the middle for no apparent reason… it drove me crazy. And now? I actually enjoy them. Once you get used to them, they are not stressful at all. They…
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